Disclaimer: I own Inu Yasha *snort yea right!
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Seisouhen
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Prologue
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She nodded in understanding.
.
But her heart hurt.
.
She need to let go.
.
But the pain was too great.
.
He needed to be happy, even if it was with.... her. She needed to let him go, no matter how much it hurt her. His happiness
far surpassed her own.
.
He chose his happiness.
.
And it wasn't with her.
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Ch. 1: "This New Life"
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.
.
Kagome sighed and turned away from her computer. Yet another writer's block. The grown woman stood up, stretched, and left
the computer room to her kitchen. She poured herself a tall glass of ice tea.
.
The woman gulped it down, then held her head in a brain freeze. When the freezing pain surpassed, Kagome went to her
bedroom, changed into her pajamas, then crawled into the crisp, clean sheets of her bed.
.
The woman was about to fall asleep, when she sat up abruptly, then turned to her alarm clock, and set the timer on it.
.
Then she finally let sleep claimed her.
.
.
"Is.... is this what you want..... Inu Yasha?"
.
The young guy, who sat across from the girl, nodded slowly only once.
.
The camp fire between the two started to die down. The snapping and crackling were few, and far between.
.
The girl held a pink jewel in her hands. A jewel that once had been shattered in little pieces was now complete.
.
She handed the pink jewel over to the guy across from her. A clawed hand gently took it, but the two hands the transferred
to jewel never touched.
.
"We were meant to be together.... it was supposed to be me and her fifty years ago.... I'm sorry, Kag--"
.
"Wakatta. I understand."
.
The girl's long bangs fell over her eyes, covering them from view, which she was grateful for.
.
"After all...." the girl laughed. "I only came here to do what I needed to do. Collect all the Shikon Shards.... you defeat
Naraku.... all of it was just a fairy tail...."
.
"I'm sorry...."
.
The girl continued as if she didn't hear the apology.
.
"But it was a great fairy tail.... a wonderful adventure.... I had a great time, I met such wonderful people, and I thank
you for that so much."
.
The girl lifted her head up and looked at the one who she loved so much. She didn't have an expression of pain, but she was
smiling. A true smile.
.
After all, you want to leave the one you love with happiness. Not tears.
.
The girl stood up, walked over to the guy with golden eyes, silver hair, and cute puppy ears. She reached up to his ears,
and played with them for a while. The guy with the ears didn't protest, nor did he show any annoyance.
.
He just sat there with a blank face. He needed to see for himself just what he would be sacrificing for this one decision.
His pride and joy. His.... friend.
.
The girl stopped playing with his ears, and grabbed an infamous yellow backpack, and took off to the direction of an
infamous prop.
.
The girl took a few steps then stopped. She looked at all her sleeping friends, the back at the one who still held her
heart. He wasn't looking at her. He couldn't watch the one person who showed him more than motherly love, and friendship
walk away, and out of his life.
.
The girl carefully set the giant bag down on the ground, and turned her back on the dog eared youkai.
.
"Tell them.... tell them I left because I hate them.... and I never want to see them again...." the girl requested to the
half youkai.
.
"I could never do that. I'll tell them the truth.... Kagome."
.
Her name. He said her name. But it wasn't like all the other times he said her name. This time he said her name like it was
the most beautiful word he had ever heard in his young life. It was a way of saying he was sorry.
.
The raven-haired girl left the group, not once looking back, or waking them up to tell them good-bye.
.
It would be too painful.
.
.
.
The woman woke up abruptly to the screeching of her alarm clock. In the pitch blackness, the woman scrambled and searched
for the source of the sound. This caused her items on her night stand to fall to the floor with a clatter.
.
The alarm still kept screeching. Now, the woman fell out of her bed, and searched blindingly for the alarm clock. She felt
her foot fall onto some broken glass.
.
The woman yelped and shouted a stream of very creative curses that a certain hanyou could learn from. Ignoring the thought
of that certain someone, the woman finally found the offending contraption, and she tried to find the off switch.
.
When she couldn't find the switch, she yanked on the electrical cord, hoping to unplug it out of the socket.
.
It didn't work.
.
So the woman did the only thing logical that all nerve-shot, tired, just-got-up-in-the- morning people do.
.
She banged the alarm clock on the floor until it went out with a "RRRrrrrr...."
.
Breathing in a sigh of relief, Kagome stood up. Which was a bad thing, due to the fact that she forgot about the broken
glass, and she embedded more sharp pieces into the bottom of her foot.
.
Once again, Kagome yelped in pain, and let out a stream of curses that would make any foul-mouth youkai bow down to her in
awe and unworthiness.
.
Still in the dark, Kagome hopped on one foot to a light switch. The light lit up the room like it was day, and Kagome had
to shut her eyes as her pupils retracted quickly and painfully.
.
When her eyes finally adjusted to the bright light, she looked at the mess she created. Her night lamp was broken on the
floor, her alarm clock was in pieces, which was really her fault, her phone was off it's receiver, and a trail of blood
was in her direction.
.
Kagome looked at the bottom of her foot. It dripped with her blood. Most likely, it would stain her white carpet. Growling
in frustration, Kagome grabbed the phone first, and set it down on the receiver. As soon as she did, it started ringing,
causing her to jump.
.
"What?" Kagome asked after she picked up the phone.
.
"Kagome!" a male voice said on the other end. "I've been trying to call you! Are you okay?"
.
*Yea, I just woke up with a really great morning, involving a screeching alarm clock, broken items, and a bleeding foot.
Yup! Everything is fine and dandy!* Kagome wanted to say, but instead, she settled for something else.
.
"Yes, sir, I'm fine. I just had a little accident."
.
"....... Aren't you too old to be wetting the bed?"
.
"Not THAT accident! An accident sent from the seventh circle of hell!"
.
"....... Sure, Kagome. Any way, about that story of yours--"
.
"Yes, sir, I know. I need to meet the deadline. But I've been having an extreme, major writer's block here!"
.
"But before, when you started the story, you were constantly updating!" the man, we now know as Kagome's boss, exclaimed.
"People are almost demanding to see the story complete. And you said this is the last book."
.
"Yes, sir," Kagome answered back. "I'll try really hard to think of an ending. But, please sir, give me just a little more
time."
.
The man on the other end sighed.
.
"Two weeks, Kagome. Two weeks. That's all I can do."
.
"Okay, thanks sir."
.
The conversation ended there.
.
.
.
Kagome stared at the blinking cursor on the computer screen. She sighed, then read what she had.
.
Kagome sighed again, then turned to a huge bag next to her. It was stuffed full of unanswered fan mail her fans wrote to
her. She never excepted e-mail due to computer viruses.
.
Then the grown woman looked at her stacks of published books. She took the first Volume, and read a paragraph.
.
Hiragashi, Kagome was very famous for her books in the very popular series of "Sengoku Jidai."
.
Kagome first thought of writing a series of her hidden life when she was twenty-five. She was still trying to forget about
her friends then. But it was impossible to forget about such wonderful people.
.
The people in her time didn't realize that. Kagome wanted someone, other than herself, to remember them. And one day, while
being bored, and going through some old things, she came across her old diary, when she was a young girl.
.
Her diary when she was fifteen.
.
Her Sengoku Jidai diary. It was filled with everything, and anything. Filled with every day entries. Her Seisouhen. Her
memories.
.
She finally found a way to let everyone know what wonderful friends she had in that time, what adventures they shared
together. How they shared their hopes, dreams, pain, everything.
.
So she turned it into a book called, "Sengoku Jidai."
.
People were in awe about her. How could she come up with such a great idea? It couldn't have just popped up into her head
one day!
.
*If only they knew....*
.
How could she write the character's personalities so precise, and so detailed, it was if they really existed in that time?
.
*Well, you know, things happen....*
.
How come she put herself as the main character?
.
It's tue. Kagome did put herself down as the main character. Because it was her story. Her memories. Her pain....
.
And so, here she was, trying to finnish the final Volume to her book. She had the final battle with Naraku down in
expressive detail, but she didn't know how to end it. She knew the true ending, of course, but a fairy tail wasn't supposed
to have a sad ending.
.
Kagome thought many times to just have that walking corps die, like everyone who had ever read her books wanted her to,
and get together with Inu Yasha. But she would just be conflicting more pain on herself.
.
She would be having a fairy tail inside a fairy tail.
.
Kagome was just in conflict with herself. This whole idea was supposed to be a treatment. Kind of like medicine. It was
supposed to soothe her aching heart, not create a fantasy for something she lost and will never gain back.
.
Kagome read some more of the first volume. She noticed she always wrote in 1st person. Like in the 2nd chapter:
.
"I gasped.
.
*These are not human ears!..... I want to touch them....!*
.
I grasped his pointy, husky-like ears, and I rubbed them between my fingers and thumb."
.
However, Kagome's story does have an ending, just not one that she wanted.
.
Suddenly, Kagome's phone rang. The woman went to her kitchen phone, and answered.
.
"Mushi Mushi?"
.
"Kagome, dear!" a woman on the other end greeted.
.
"Mom?!"
.
"Yes, dear! I was wondering if you could come over for a visit? Maybe spend the night?"
.
Kagome looked at her computer just as the screen saver came on.
.
*I guess I can take a vacation.*
.
"Sure, Mom, I'll be over in an hour."
.
.
.
AN: I'm not going to let this be a long, drawn-out story. Just a couple of chapters, then it will be finished. Is that
okay? By the way, if some of you readers know about "Rurouni Kenshin", and also know about the final sequel to the
wonderful series called, "Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen OVA", just to let you know, I didn't get the name from that. Well,
okay, in a way I did, but it's not a crossover. That would be too depressing. But "Seisouhen" is translated to "Memories."
So, now I'm going to stop talking and work on the next chapter! ^_^
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Seisouhen
.
.
Prologue
.
.
She nodded in understanding.
.
But her heart hurt.
.
She need to let go.
.
But the pain was too great.
.
He needed to be happy, even if it was with.... her. She needed to let him go, no matter how much it hurt her. His happiness
far surpassed her own.
.
He chose his happiness.
.
And it wasn't with her.
.
.
.
Ch. 1: "This New Life"
.
.
.
Kagome sighed and turned away from her computer. Yet another writer's block. The grown woman stood up, stretched, and left
the computer room to her kitchen. She poured herself a tall glass of ice tea.
.
The woman gulped it down, then held her head in a brain freeze. When the freezing pain surpassed, Kagome went to her
bedroom, changed into her pajamas, then crawled into the crisp, clean sheets of her bed.
.
The woman was about to fall asleep, when she sat up abruptly, then turned to her alarm clock, and set the timer on it.
.
Then she finally let sleep claimed her.
.
.
"Is.... is this what you want..... Inu Yasha?"
.
The young guy, who sat across from the girl, nodded slowly only once.
.
The camp fire between the two started to die down. The snapping and crackling were few, and far between.
.
The girl held a pink jewel in her hands. A jewel that once had been shattered in little pieces was now complete.
.
She handed the pink jewel over to the guy across from her. A clawed hand gently took it, but the two hands the transferred
to jewel never touched.
.
"We were meant to be together.... it was supposed to be me and her fifty years ago.... I'm sorry, Kag--"
.
"Wakatta. I understand."
.
The girl's long bangs fell over her eyes, covering them from view, which she was grateful for.
.
"After all...." the girl laughed. "I only came here to do what I needed to do. Collect all the Shikon Shards.... you defeat
Naraku.... all of it was just a fairy tail...."
.
"I'm sorry...."
.
The girl continued as if she didn't hear the apology.
.
"But it was a great fairy tail.... a wonderful adventure.... I had a great time, I met such wonderful people, and I thank
you for that so much."
.
The girl lifted her head up and looked at the one who she loved so much. She didn't have an expression of pain, but she was
smiling. A true smile.
.
After all, you want to leave the one you love with happiness. Not tears.
.
The girl stood up, walked over to the guy with golden eyes, silver hair, and cute puppy ears. She reached up to his ears,
and played with them for a while. The guy with the ears didn't protest, nor did he show any annoyance.
.
He just sat there with a blank face. He needed to see for himself just what he would be sacrificing for this one decision.
His pride and joy. His.... friend.
.
The girl stopped playing with his ears, and grabbed an infamous yellow backpack, and took off to the direction of an
infamous prop.
.
The girl took a few steps then stopped. She looked at all her sleeping friends, the back at the one who still held her
heart. He wasn't looking at her. He couldn't watch the one person who showed him more than motherly love, and friendship
walk away, and out of his life.
.
The girl carefully set the giant bag down on the ground, and turned her back on the dog eared youkai.
.
"Tell them.... tell them I left because I hate them.... and I never want to see them again...." the girl requested to the
half youkai.
.
"I could never do that. I'll tell them the truth.... Kagome."
.
Her name. He said her name. But it wasn't like all the other times he said her name. This time he said her name like it was
the most beautiful word he had ever heard in his young life. It was a way of saying he was sorry.
.
The raven-haired girl left the group, not once looking back, or waking them up to tell them good-bye.
.
It would be too painful.
.
.
.
The woman woke up abruptly to the screeching of her alarm clock. In the pitch blackness, the woman scrambled and searched
for the source of the sound. This caused her items on her night stand to fall to the floor with a clatter.
.
The alarm still kept screeching. Now, the woman fell out of her bed, and searched blindingly for the alarm clock. She felt
her foot fall onto some broken glass.
.
The woman yelped and shouted a stream of very creative curses that a certain hanyou could learn from. Ignoring the thought
of that certain someone, the woman finally found the offending contraption, and she tried to find the off switch.
.
When she couldn't find the switch, she yanked on the electrical cord, hoping to unplug it out of the socket.
.
It didn't work.
.
So the woman did the only thing logical that all nerve-shot, tired, just-got-up-in-the- morning people do.
.
She banged the alarm clock on the floor until it went out with a "RRRrrrrr...."
.
Breathing in a sigh of relief, Kagome stood up. Which was a bad thing, due to the fact that she forgot about the broken
glass, and she embedded more sharp pieces into the bottom of her foot.
.
Once again, Kagome yelped in pain, and let out a stream of curses that would make any foul-mouth youkai bow down to her in
awe and unworthiness.
.
Still in the dark, Kagome hopped on one foot to a light switch. The light lit up the room like it was day, and Kagome had
to shut her eyes as her pupils retracted quickly and painfully.
.
When her eyes finally adjusted to the bright light, she looked at the mess she created. Her night lamp was broken on the
floor, her alarm clock was in pieces, which was really her fault, her phone was off it's receiver, and a trail of blood
was in her direction.
.
Kagome looked at the bottom of her foot. It dripped with her blood. Most likely, it would stain her white carpet. Growling
in frustration, Kagome grabbed the phone first, and set it down on the receiver. As soon as she did, it started ringing,
causing her to jump.
.
"What?" Kagome asked after she picked up the phone.
.
"Kagome!" a male voice said on the other end. "I've been trying to call you! Are you okay?"
.
*Yea, I just woke up with a really great morning, involving a screeching alarm clock, broken items, and a bleeding foot.
Yup! Everything is fine and dandy!* Kagome wanted to say, but instead, she settled for something else.
.
"Yes, sir, I'm fine. I just had a little accident."
.
"....... Aren't you too old to be wetting the bed?"
.
"Not THAT accident! An accident sent from the seventh circle of hell!"
.
"....... Sure, Kagome. Any way, about that story of yours--"
.
"Yes, sir, I know. I need to meet the deadline. But I've been having an extreme, major writer's block here!"
.
"But before, when you started the story, you were constantly updating!" the man, we now know as Kagome's boss, exclaimed.
"People are almost demanding to see the story complete. And you said this is the last book."
.
"Yes, sir," Kagome answered back. "I'll try really hard to think of an ending. But, please sir, give me just a little more
time."
.
The man on the other end sighed.
.
"Two weeks, Kagome. Two weeks. That's all I can do."
.
"Okay, thanks sir."
.
The conversation ended there.
.
.
.
Kagome stared at the blinking cursor on the computer screen. She sighed, then read what she had.
.
Kagome sighed again, then turned to a huge bag next to her. It was stuffed full of unanswered fan mail her fans wrote to
her. She never excepted e-mail due to computer viruses.
.
Then the grown woman looked at her stacks of published books. She took the first Volume, and read a paragraph.
.
Hiragashi, Kagome was very famous for her books in the very popular series of "Sengoku Jidai."
.
Kagome first thought of writing a series of her hidden life when she was twenty-five. She was still trying to forget about
her friends then. But it was impossible to forget about such wonderful people.
.
The people in her time didn't realize that. Kagome wanted someone, other than herself, to remember them. And one day, while
being bored, and going through some old things, she came across her old diary, when she was a young girl.
.
Her diary when she was fifteen.
.
Her Sengoku Jidai diary. It was filled with everything, and anything. Filled with every day entries. Her Seisouhen. Her
memories.
.
She finally found a way to let everyone know what wonderful friends she had in that time, what adventures they shared
together. How they shared their hopes, dreams, pain, everything.
.
So she turned it into a book called, "Sengoku Jidai."
.
People were in awe about her. How could she come up with such a great idea? It couldn't have just popped up into her head
one day!
.
*If only they knew....*
.
How could she write the character's personalities so precise, and so detailed, it was if they really existed in that time?
.
*Well, you know, things happen....*
.
How come she put herself as the main character?
.
It's tue. Kagome did put herself down as the main character. Because it was her story. Her memories. Her pain....
.
And so, here she was, trying to finnish the final Volume to her book. She had the final battle with Naraku down in
expressive detail, but she didn't know how to end it. She knew the true ending, of course, but a fairy tail wasn't supposed
to have a sad ending.
.
Kagome thought many times to just have that walking corps die, like everyone who had ever read her books wanted her to,
and get together with Inu Yasha. But she would just be conflicting more pain on herself.
.
She would be having a fairy tail inside a fairy tail.
.
Kagome was just in conflict with herself. This whole idea was supposed to be a treatment. Kind of like medicine. It was
supposed to soothe her aching heart, not create a fantasy for something she lost and will never gain back.
.
Kagome read some more of the first volume. She noticed she always wrote in 1st person. Like in the 2nd chapter:
.
"I gasped.
.
*These are not human ears!..... I want to touch them....!*
.
I grasped his pointy, husky-like ears, and I rubbed them between my fingers and thumb."
.
However, Kagome's story does have an ending, just not one that she wanted.
.
Suddenly, Kagome's phone rang. The woman went to her kitchen phone, and answered.
.
"Mushi Mushi?"
.
"Kagome, dear!" a woman on the other end greeted.
.
"Mom?!"
.
"Yes, dear! I was wondering if you could come over for a visit? Maybe spend the night?"
.
Kagome looked at her computer just as the screen saver came on.
.
*I guess I can take a vacation.*
.
"Sure, Mom, I'll be over in an hour."
.
.
.
AN: I'm not going to let this be a long, drawn-out story. Just a couple of chapters, then it will be finished. Is that
okay? By the way, if some of you readers know about "Rurouni Kenshin", and also know about the final sequel to the
wonderful series called, "Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen OVA", just to let you know, I didn't get the name from that. Well,
okay, in a way I did, but it's not a crossover. That would be too depressing. But "Seisouhen" is translated to "Memories."
So, now I'm going to stop talking and work on the next chapter! ^_^